In a Kingdom where valorous soldiers fight for their nation one unlucky Thane crosses paths with unchanging fate. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the protagonist Macbeth undergoes a profound and gradual evolution throughout the play centered around his ambition. For the duration of the story the main character learns who he was destined to become through life changing events. His erosion from trustworthy Thane to killer King and finally a mass murdering Tyrant branches off from his tragic flaw, ambition. Starting with one big mistake of going to three weird sisters.
When the story begins Shakespeare introduces Macbeth as a loyal and brave soldier straight out of defending his beloved country. Macbeth visits three weird witches and his personality takes a turn for the worst. This
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Macbeth doesn’t care anymore all he wants to power and will do anything to get it, to give an example kill friends, women and children. When, he kills Young Siward there is no mercy. Another example is when he talks about the death of his wife and says “She would have died later one day.”, he has lost all remorse and love through ambition (5.2.1). This just shows what excessive ambition can do to you and the surrounding people, if you even care anymore. Even in the darkest hours after his wife has died and everything he ever worked to accomplish is going to fail, Macbeth will cross any boundaries to get his way. Macbeth ends here with nothing left but the dishonor in his name. Leading to conclusion Macbeth’s ambition brought him to his doom.
In final analysis Macbeth ends as a tragedy because he couldn’t set aside his wants and needs. In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Macbeth the pivotal protagonist who is overcome with a tragic flaw, ambition. Macbeth went from a loyal Thane to a mass murdering King quickly owing to the fact that his ambition inclined throughout the
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragedy in which the main characters are obsessed by the desire for power. Macbeth’s aspiration for power blinds him to the ethical implications of his dreadful acts. The more that Shakespeare’s Macbeth represses his murderous feelings, the more he is haunted by them. By analyzing his hallucinations it is possible to trace his deteriorating mental state and the trajectory of his ultimate fall. Throughout the play Macbeth is never satisfied with himself. He feels the need to keep committing crime in order to keep what he wants most: his kingship. The harder Macbeth tries to change his fate the more he tends to run into his fate. His ambition and struggle for power was Macbeth’s tragic flaw in the play.
In the novel, “Macbeth”, Shakesphere builds suspense and mystery throughout the passage, maintaining flexible characters that are constantly changing. Numerous events take place throughout the book which lead to a tragic ending. He begins with presenting Macbeth as a noble man who want to do good deeds but Lady Macbeth turns his husband into the exact opposite. Macbeth begins to have strong ambitions, causing him to make tragic decisions: Some which he may have never imagined he would do. The tragic results of the Macbeths actions lead to inevitable tragedy of nature.
In Macbeth ambition plays a huge role in character devolvement. Ambition affects four of the major characters. The characters are Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Malcom, and Banquo. The sisters are the source of Ambition. It is as if they control ambition. The ambition the sisters’ control is negative ambition. Ambition is, wanting to have more then you have and wanting it now.
Through the soliloquy, the audience gains insight into Macbeth’s innermost thoughts. He names multiple reasons as to why he should not kill King Duncan, noting that Duncan is his guest, kinsman and a good king. He also admits that the only motive he has is the “Vaulting ambition” residing inside of him. Here he names his own hamartia, his fatal flaw, and acknowledges that to give in and commit such a deed, would result in his “deep damnation”. While still undecided on the matter, Lady Macbeth enters, and, seeing his indecision she decides to manipulate him into the decision that suits her; for after all, she is almost if not as ambitious as her husband. By questioning his manhood, his bravery, even their marriage, she successfully leads him to make the choice to kill the king. We now must realise that although the witches’ prophecies and Lady Macbeth’s taunts were a catalyst for Macbeth’s treachery, they never force him to make these errors in judgement; it must have been something that was already inside of him that caused him to decide this. There must have been some inherent evil already a part of his character.
Here we can see that Macbeth is nearing the ultimate doom as he is going there a great tragedy hits him, Lady Macbeth dies. To Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is his only family member and so to lose the only person with whom he could confide with and talk to about their plans without fear is pivotal. This causes Macbeth to lose all hope of living since now to him each day is the same and they all goes by slowly. To him the future is bleak and since the future, he and his wife thought of now gone and now that wife died, life is an intolerable burden, and the future an overwhelming force that leads him to his ultimate destiny. This is all due to his unchecked ambition which leads him to be blinded by it and thus to his downfall.
Initially, Macbeth’s ambition for power is subdued by his longing to hold onto his honor and dignity. Unfortunately, Macbeth lets go of his integrity and kills the unguarded Duncan and so in an attempt to keep the guilt of his deeds to himself, distances himself from not only his wife but also has one of his closest friends murdered. Finally, Macbeth’s thirst for power and greatness emptied him of everything he had; dignity, respect, and honor. Ultimately, motivation that is founded on selfish reasons leads one down a path that strippes one of everthing they have and so takes away any meaning to
Ambition is often the driving force in one’s life. It can have an extremely dominant impact on not only yourself, but also many people in your surroundings. You have the ability to control if the outcomes either have a lasting negative or positive effect. When a goal requires determination and hard work to complete, personal morals often take a back seat to the aspiration of accomplishing the goal. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, it is clear that like many other great leaders, Macbeth exemplifies the necessary leadership virtue of ambition. Macbeth’s ambition does not just drive him to do great things. It in fact controls him. The playwright explores the idea of how an individual’s ambition can cause them to deceive others, make irrational
“Macbeth” a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, portrays, how the main character Macbeth, transforms from a war hero, to a murdering villain. Macbeth starts out as the thane of Glamis and steadily rises to become King of Scotland. The higher Macbeth rose on his road of power the more corrupt and evil he became. The character change of Macbeth ignites the whole theme of the play.
Shakespear had a background of using universal themes in his material. The play Macbeth is very well-known that includes many of his themes such as ambition, guilt, things are not what they seem and nature versus the unnatural. The themes have powerful messages that help plot out the play keeping you itching for what's next.
Throughout reading the play, Macbeth changes a lot from being a man of loyalty and honesty, to a man of whom is power hungry and greedy. This shows how the more power you receive the more power you want; which in many cases, such as this one leads to destruction. Many of the choices that Macbeth made were influenced by the power that he had, and this power began to take over him. This then lead to greed and destruction of not only others, but himself as well.
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare recounts Macbeth's meteoric rise as a soldier and promising future leader whose megalomaniacal ambition led to his tragic downfall. In addition to Macbeth's ambitions, which initially enable him to be strong leader and soldier, he is influenced heavily by his wife, Lady Macbeth, and the three witches that prophesize his ascent to the throne, as well as warn him of his eventual demise. It can be argued that it is Macbeth's ambition that allows him to succeed in his endeavors, however the goals to which he is working toward influence the results of his hard work. Macbeth's ambitions help him to become a war hero, and as his goals change, his ambitions drive him to become a tyrannical villain.
Ambition is a strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work. In Williams Shakespeare 's Macbeth the characters Lady Macbeth and Macbeth have a strong desire to ascend the throne and they are determined to do whatever it takes in order to achieve this goal, including deceiving and killing those they are closest to. The zeal of ambition predominately persuades both characters actions in Macbeth. Lady Macbeth portrays how the forces of ambition strike her to instil a powerful drive in her husband, also how she demonstrates an overweening pride and lack of morals in order to reach a goal and lastly how ambition leads Macbeth to betray those cares about most.
Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare’s most powerful and emotionally intense plays. Macbeth, once known for his courage and bravery is transformed into a ruthless tyrant. His wife, Lady Macbeth, once known for her strength and great ambition is soon engulfed by guilt and sensitivity greatly weakens her. As the tragic hero Macbeth is overcome by tensions in his criminal act and the reactions by his conscience (Nix).
In the play Macbeth, the journey to success becomes a complicated and difficult tangled web for the two main characters, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. In the play both of them go to extremes that they never even knew they would be possible of doing. Through the course of the reading many things are done, that may reflect badly on their character. They are left however, in the position where they will do just about anything to get the successes that they so hardly strive for. Macbeth, even goes to one of the greatest extremes that a person possibly could all to gain a little bit of success. He commits murder, after committing the murder he is left with much guilt, and even contemplates killing himself because he sees no other way out from escaping
Macbeth’s major flaws are his ambition and impressionability. Due to their flaws, a Tragic Hero’s actions are often atrocious and cause them to battle with their conscience after their desires have been accomplished. These battles with their conscience evoke empathy from the audience. A Shakespearean Tragic Hero will always lose their life in the end of the play as a result of re-establishment of what is good in the play. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the title